Best Eggnog Recipe

Mix 4 cups bourbon and 2¼ cups sugar in a bowl - allow to sit overnight.
beat 12 large egg yolks until they're sort of a pale yellow, which means you got to beat them a long time.
fold that into the bourbon and sugar and you let that sit a little bit. (a few hours)
Sort of the secret is, sort of, the marination(ph) a little bit in the bourbon.
Beat 8 cups whipping cream until stiff and fold in, cool again for an hour or so.
(serves 20)

southern lifestyle magazine Garden and Gun (no kidding)

Chatham Artillery Punch. That's a 19th century brew cooked up by a regiment that guarded the city of Savannah long ago. Reed says the Chatham Regiment was known for mixing a drink with a kick like a cannon.


A gallon of gin,
a gallon of rye,
a gallon of cognac,
two gallons of rum,
two gallons of Catawba wine
12 quarts of champagne.

Baby, you've got a long way yet to go

Today, we earn more college degrees and have infinitely more choices, but what has it meant? Take a look:

Women have surged into the workforce since the 1960s—but real householdincome has stagnated for all but the richest 10%. That means our families have sent more people off to work just to maintain our standard of living.

Progress toward gender equality has stalled. Women’s annual earnings are just 77% of men’s.

Among 25- to 34-year-old workers, women are more likely than men to have a college degree.

Two-thirds of minimum wage earners are women.

Five of the six fastest-growing industries pay low wages—and employ mostly women.

Most (60%) of women’s job gains during the economic recovery have been in low-wage jobs.

The unemployment rate for young (ages 16 to 24) women workers is 14.5%.

43% of women working in the private sector are not able to take a single paid sick day when they are ill, and more than half of working mothers (54%) do not have even a few paid sick days they can use to care for their sick children.

Women in unions, on average, make 12.9% more than their nonunion counterparts, are 36.8% more likely to have employer-provided health insurance and are 53.4% more likely to have participated in an employer-sponsored retirement plan.

How can we get progress on gender equality moving again? We could start by raising the minimum wage, enacting family-friendly policies like the FAMILY Act, investing in good jobs and restoring collective bargaining rights so all workers can stand together.